ENEWSLETTER: July 2015
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The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.
RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased
$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant
$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse
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RECENT CASES
New York State Education Department Denies Petition to Stay, Allows Swearing in of Leading Vote Getters as Hempstead Union Free School District Board Members
The State of New York’s Education Department recently ruled in favor of defendants Ms. Maribel Toure´ and Ms. Gwendolyn Jackson after denying the Hempstead Union Free School Districts Board of Education’s petition to stay, which would have prohibited the swearing in of Ms. Toure´ and Ms. Jackson as school board members. Fred Brewington of the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington represented the defendants in the case.
On May 19, the Hempstead Union Free School District school board election took place, during which Ms. Toure´ and Ms. Jackson were the top two vote getters in the election. Shortly thereafter, the school district and board of education petitioned the Commissioner of Education of the State of New York to overturn the results and order a new election, citing electioneering, voter intimidation, fraud and misrepresentation.
A memorandum of law written by Mr. Brewington addressed and explained, in detail, responses to each claim against the defendants, including false accusations of misuse of campaign expenditures and electioneering, noting that the petition did not actually show any improper actions made an impact on the outcome of the election and even failed to suggest any votes were impacted. Instead, the memorandum went on to describe the petition to stay as a "ploy" and an "abuse of the legal system" by “disgruntled individuals” in an effort to delay the appointment of the candidates who lawfully won the election, while suppressing the rights of the voters.
On July 1, Tina Urbaitis, an appeals coordinator for the State Education Department, denied the petition for a stay, allowing both Ms. Toure and Ms. Jackson to be sworn in on July 7.
Click here to read the memorandum of law.
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